English

hereat

Hereat comes from Middle English her-att.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 2017, The Histories of Herodotus:: “Greatly distressed hereat, they declared themselves to deserve a…”

A compound of here + at

Proto-Germanic *hē₂r ‘here, in this place’

Proto-West Germanic *hēr ‘here’

Old English hēr ‘at this place’

Middle English her

English here

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

Proto-Germanic *at ‘at’

Proto-West Germanic *at

Old English æt ‘at’

Middle English at

English at

Every English word from Middle English her-att

adv At this time; upon this event.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.